AFTER LOVE.O TO part now, and, parting now,Never to meet again;To have done for ever, I and thou,With joy, and so with pain.It is too hard, too hard to meetAs friends, and love no more;Those other meetings were too sweetThat went before.And I would have, now love is over,An end to all, an end:I cannot, having been your lover,Stoop to become your friend!
O TO part now, and, parting now,Never to meet again;To have done for ever, I and thou,With joy, and so with pain.
It is too hard, too hard to meetAs friends, and love no more;Those other meetings were too sweetThat went before.
And I would have, now love is over,An end to all, an end:I cannot, having been your lover,Stoop to become your friend!